A policeman from the BAC (Anti-Crime Squad) in Nîmes was probably saved by his bulletproof vest on Saturday during the urban violence that took place five days after the death of Nahel, in Nanterre. It was on returning home on Saturday morning that he discovered a 9mm bullet lodged in the protection. “At the time, he thought he had been hit by a cobblestone, evokes the Alliance Gard police union. But at the end of his service, he noticed an impact on his vest which was not crossed. »
The facts occurred on the night of Friday to Saturday in the Pissevin district in Nîmes, in the Gard. They have just been confirmed this Sunday by the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, who announces “the opening of an investigation in the act of the head of attempted assassination on a person holding public authority”.
An x-ray of the bulletproof vest confirms the presence of the warhead
An x-ray of the bulletproof vest “confirmed the presence of ammunition in the bulletproof vest. The judicial police of Montpellier and its branch of Nîmes are seized of the investigation. “As the case stands, no one has been arrested,” said the prosecutor. Saved by his protection, the policeman only suffered a contusion on the side.